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PRESIDENT OF INDIA INAUGURATES ‘UNMESHA’ AND ‘UTKARSH’ FESTIVALS IN BHOPAL
The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurated ‘Unmesha’ – International Literature Festival and ‘Utkarsh’ – Festival of Folk and Tribal Performing Arts today  at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said that literature connects with people and also connects people with each other. She stated that only those literatures and arts are meaningful which were created and presented by rising above 'I' and 'mine'. She added that translation of major works of all Indian languages into other languages would further enrich Indian literature.
The President said that literature has shown a mirror to humanity, saved it and also taken it forward. Literature and art have preserved sensitivity and compassion, that is, have preserved the humanity of humans. Writers and artists are entitled to admiration for being participants in this most sacred campaign for the protection of humanity.
The President said that literature gave strength to the ideals of our freedom struggle. In every corner of the country, many writers gave expression to the ideals of freedom and renaissance. Novels, stories, poems and plays written in the period of Indian renaissance and freedom struggle are popular even today, and they have a wide influence on our minds.
The President said that in a world facing many challenges, we must find effective ways to build greater understanding among peoples of different cultures and beliefs. Storytellers and poets have a central role in that effort because literature has the unique ability to connect our experiences and to transcend differences. She said that we should use the ability of literature to reveal our common destiny and strengthen our global community.
The President said that progress of tribal brothers and sisters is necessary for India to become a developed nation. Tribal youth also want to fulfil their hopes and aspirations. It should be our collective endeavour that they become partners in development while preserving their culture, ethos, customs and natural environment.
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Special Service and Features
VOC Port observes Gandhi Jayanthi and honours the Sanitation Workers
Today, Gandhi Jayanti Day was observed at the V.O.Chidambaranar Port Authority. Shri Bimal Kumar Jha, Chairperson i/c., and Senior Officers of the Port paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the Administrative office of the Port, on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
As a befitting tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and as a part of Special Campaign 3.0, around 200 sanitation workers of the Port were acknowledged and honoured by Shri Bimal Kumar Jha, Chairperson i/c., in the presence of Shri K. Ravikumar, Chief Engineer and other senior officers of the Port, for their dedicated upkeeping of the Port estate and upholding the spirit of cleanliness.
V.O. Chidambaranar has chalked out a 27 long day programmes from 01.10.2023 to 31.10.2023 like
- Removal of garbage,
- Painting of all sanitation assets,
- Discourage usage of single use plastic items and encouraging alternatives to Single Use Plastic
- Cleanliness drives and awareness activities at Port schools to educate children on the importance of waste segregation at source
- Cleaning of all assets like berth area, railway tracks, Port colony, hospital etc.
- Conduct special programmes to promote the sanitation journey of the country.
Shri Bimal Kumar Jha, Chairperson i/c., VOC Port in his address remarked that VOC Port takes pride in claiming as one of the cleanest Ports in the country and also requested all to make cleanliness a ‘way of life’. It is imperative that the seaports are kept clean and well maintained to ensure environmental conservation, compliance to environmental obligations, upkeep safety standards, improving operational efficiency and productivity, and reputation of the trade leading to increased trade volumes and economic growth.
Swachhata Hi Seva 2023 campaign is being observed under the joint aegis of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation & Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Government of India for undertaking cleaning  activities on the theme 'Garbage Free India' to reinforce the concept of Sanitation as everyone’s business.
The above details were released in the Press Release by V. O. Chidambaranar Port Authority, today.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
High-level delegations from India and EFTA meet to boost bilateral trade and economic partnership
Ministers and high-level representatives from India and the European Free Trade Association  States  gathered in New Delhi today to discuss the prospects of resuming their negotiations towards a Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement .
The high-level delegations were composed of Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles of India; Jan Christian Vestre, Minister of Trade and Industry of Norway; Helene Budliger Artieda, Swiss State Secretary at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO; Martin Eyjólfsson, Permanent Secretary of State of Iceland at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Kurt Jäger, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to EFTA, WTO and the UN in Geneva; and Henri Gétaz, Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association.
The meeting provided an opportunity for both sides to exchange views on the state of play of their negotiations and explore ways to advance the talks. The participants acknowledged the challenges posed by the current global economic and trade environment, as well as the need to address the bilateral trade and economic partnership issues in a constructive and pragmatic manner. Both sides agreed to continue their efforts to resolve all outstanding issues and work towards deepening and strengthening the economic partnership, while contributing to a more inclusive global trading system.
Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister congratulates H. E. Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a telephone call today to H. E. Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to congratulate him on assuming office as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Prime Minister Modi conveyed his good wishes for the progress and prosperity of the friendly people of Malaysia. He stated that the close and mutually beneficial India-Malaysia ties are based on the strong foundation of shared values, interests and vibrant people-to-people relations. The Prime Minister said that he looked forward to working with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to further strengthen India-Malaysia strategic partnership.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
I don’t write stories, I steal stories: V Vijayendra Prasad at IFFI-53 Masterclass
A person who can tell a good lie can be a good story-teller
The pursuit to create ‘hunger’ within audience for story kicks off your creativity
#IFFIWood, 21 November 2022
I don’t write stories, I steal stories. Stories are there around you, be it epics like Mahabharat, Ramayan or real life incidences, there are stories everywhere. You need to represent it in your unique style, said V Vijayendra Prasad, the famed screenwriter of blockbuster films like Baahubali, RRR, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Magadheera.
“The pursuit to create hunger among audience for your story kicks off creativity within you. I always try to create hunger within audience for my story and characters and that drives me to create something unique and appealing”, said the master story-teller. He was addressing the film enthusiasts at a masterclass on the theme ‘The Master’s writing process’ on the sideline of 53rd International Film Festival of India in Goa today.
While talking about his style of screenwriting, Shri Prasad said, he always thinks of a twist at the interval and organize the story accordingly. “You have to create something out of nothing. You have to present a lie, which looks like truth. A person who can tell a good lie can be a good story-teller”, he added.
Responding to the query of a budding story writer, the ace story-teller said, one has to open up his mind and absorb everything. “You need to be your own harshest critics, then only your best will come out and you can take your work to unscalable heights”, he asserted.
Sharing his experience of writing for the blockbusters like Baahubali and RRR, Shri Prasad said, “I don’t write, I dictate stories. I have everything in my mind; the flow of the story, the characters, the twists”. He said, one good writer should cater to the needs of the Director, Producer, Primary Protagonist and Audience.
The session was moderated by film critic and journalist Mayank Shekhar.
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan to visit Russia and Japan
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, accompanied by an official and business delegation, will be visiting Russia and Japan from 22-26 October 2019.
As a follow up to the visit of Hon’ble Prime Minister to Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum in September 2019, the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel will visit Vladivostok on 22-25 October 2019. During his visit, the Minister will have meetings with Mr. Sergey Tyrtsev, First Deputy Minister for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic, and with Mr. Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft. He will also visit the shipbuilding Complex,Zvezda and the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East. Possible areas of collaboration in other sectors like coking coal, and shipping routes will also be discussed.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, a PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, had joined Sakhalin-1 consortium by acquiring 20% participating interest in July 2001. The project is one of the largest single foreign direct investments in Russia.
In addition, Engineers India Ltd. , another PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, will sign anMoU with the Russian National Chamber of Engineers. The MoU will strengthen the symbiotic bilateral energy cooperation as the technical expertise of both organisations will help EIL in providing its services for upcoming projects across the hydrocarbons value chain in Russia
At the invitation of the Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, ShriPradhan will visit Tokyo, Japan, from 25-26 October to participate in the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity  Ministerial meeting. Presently, Japan holds the Chair of this Global Forum. The proposed GFSEC meeting will involve policy discussions.Further, the Minister will have a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Mr. Isshu Sugawara to discuss issues of bilateral collaboration in the fields of energy as well as steel. ShriPradhan will also have meetings with Japanese steel industries to discuss strengthening collaborative investments in India.In addition, meetings of the Minister with his counterpart Ministers from other countries are also scheduled, on the sidelines of the Ministerial meeting.
India and Japan have lot of synergies in the energy sector. In the run up to energy transition in India to a gas based economy, India is collaborating on a big scale with Japan in the LNG sector, to inter alia, exchange best practices and to develop a flexible global LNG Market
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Ministry of Finance
Income Tax Department conducts search in Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The Income Tax Department has carried out search and survey operations on 25th September, 2020 at around 20 residential and business premises of a prominent group having operations in Jharkhand and West Bengal. The group is engaged in trading of various commodities, production of vanasapati ghee, real estate and tea estates. The group is having real estate projects in Kolkata.
During the search substantial evidences of transactions outside the regular books of accounts, unaccounted cash expenses and cash advances received and interest having been paid in cash, have been found. Further, cash has been found to have been introduced in the group shell companies, which has been advanced as loan to the real estate company.
Most of the companies having family members as directors, do not have any real business and very few returns of income have been filed. Most of the returns with ROC have also not been filed.
One such group company has no business since 2014, although it has shown sales of Rs. 7 crore in cash. This cash has been deposited in bank accounts in Kolkata, whereas cash sale is shown in books to buyers from Jharkhand.
During the search, hard disks, pen drives and hand written diaries have also been seized. Certain hand written diaries found indicate giving and taking of loans in cash and out of books receipt of cash on account of booking of commercial space in the real estate project. Evidences of out of books cash payments to contractors and fictitious payments to a dummy contractor have also been found. The project cost recorded in books has been found to be understated, as evidences of out of book cash expenses for construction have been found.
As per preliminary estimates, evidences of cash transactions of around Rs. 40 crore have been found. Advances received for the real estate project of around Rs. 80 crore are also under examination. Further investigations are going on.
Prime Minister's Office
PM lauds UP Government for Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhimrao Memorial and Cultural Centre
The Centre will popularise the ideals of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: PM
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has lauded the Uttar Pradesh Government for taking the lead in popularising the ideals of respected Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar among the youth.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, "The 'Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhimrao Memorial and Cultural Centre, Lucknow’ will further popularise the ideals of respected Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar among the youth.
I laud the Uttar Pradesh Government for taking the lead in this effort."
Special Service and Features
21 Days Free yoga course for the Central government employees at Shastri Bhavan Chennai
21 Days Free yoga course for the Central government employees is being organised at Shastri Bhavan, Chennai which was inaugurated today. As part of the International Yoga Day, Departments of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in association with the National Institute of Siddha is conducting this workshop.
Employees from various central government organisations has registered to participate in this course. The main aim of the course is train the participants in various aspects of the yoga, so that they can spread the awareness and initiate the yoga practices among their colleagues during the Y-Break sessions, suggested by the Ayush Ministry. Doctors from the National Institute of Siddha will train the participants.
National Institute of Siddha is located at Tambaram, Chennai is providing healthcare services to the public and is imparting clinical training to the Post Graduates. Hospital is equipped with USG, PFT, ECG, X-Ray, Bio-Chemistry, Microbiology, Pathology Laboratories, Siddha Pharmacology Laboratory for supporting the quality health care services and research activities of this Institute.
‘Y-Break’ Yoga protocol App launched by Ayush Ministry is a five-minute Yoga protocol, especially designed for working professionals to de-stress, refresh and re-focus at their workplace to increase their productivity, consists of Asanas, Pranayam and Dhyana.
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PIB’S BULLETIN ON COVID-19
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- 174.24 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
- India's Active caseload currently stands at 3,32,918
- Active cases stand at 0.78%
- Recovery Rate currently at 98.03%
- 67,538 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 4,19,10,984
- 30,757 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours
- Daily positivity rate 
- Weekly Positivity Rate 
- 75.55 cr Total Tests conducted so far; 11,79,705 tests conducted in the last 24 hours
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Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister lauds Supreme Court of India coming under the National Judicial Data Grid platform
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has praised the announcement of Chief Justice of India wherein he has informed that Supreme Court of India will come under the National Judicial Data Grid platform which provides tracking of pendency of cases. Shri Modi said that such harnessing of technology will further transparency and enhance the justice delivery system in our country.
Responding to the X post of ANI, the Prime Minister posted on X;
“Laudatory step by the Supreme Court and CJI DY Chandrachud Ji. Such harnessing of technology will further transparency and enhance the justice delivery system in our country.”
Ministry of Science & Technology
Students from universities all over India attend ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy
Nearly 100 students from more than 25 universities from all over India were introduced to various topics related to astronomy at an online training programme to develop capacity in the subject. They were taken through subject areas such as telescopes, star formation and evolution, exoplanets, solar physics, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, observing facilities at ARIES, 30-meter telescope project, and Aditya L1 space mission.
The 8-day training programme for post-graduate students titled ‘ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy  – 2021’ included hands-on and demonstration sessions on various astronomical data processing techniques such as photometry, spectroscopy, polarimetry, and machine learning every day. It was conducted by the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences , an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology  Govt. of India
The demonstration sessions were designed to help the students in getting a better understanding of the concepts covered during the lectures. The students also got to interact with ARIES scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and research scholars about various opportunities in pursuing astronomy.
The present understanding of the Universe depends not only on continuous growth of observational facilities but also on the number of people utilizing the data generated from these facilities. With technological advances, there are numerous operational and upcoming astronomical facilities in different electromagnetic spectrum bands all over the globe and in space. These facilities will be generating huge volumes of data, which require a growing number of researchers to exploit the data and improve the understanding of celestial bodies.
By conducting training schools annually, ARIES aims to develop an expertise/skill in astronomical data-analysis in optical wavelengths among young students and create a talent pool in the country. ATSOA-2021 was an important step in this direction. The programme from 17th-24th May 2021 was a part of the activities commemorating “75 years of India's Independence: Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” at ARIES.
Figure: Snapshots from the online training program
Ministry of Defence
INDIAN OCEAN RIM ASSOCIATION  SEMINAR ON ILLEGAL UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED  FISHING
A Seminar on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated  Fishing, under the aegis of Indian Ocean Rim Association , was conducted by the Indian Navy at Goa on 02 November 2022.
As the third largest ocean, the Indian Ocean Region  is a lifeline for nearly 35% of global population. Fish and Fisheries comprise important components of food security chain. These also contribute significantly to national socio-economic development. Sustainable fishing is seriously compromised by IUU fishing activities and are therefore a major cause of concern for the littorals of IOR. This was accordingly identified as an area of greater collaboration by the IORA Working Group on Maritime Safety and Security , established in September 2018. The WGMSS is presently chaired by Sri Lanka, and is advancing the IORA Action Plan 2017-21, adopted by IORA Member States.
The Seminar was conducted by the Indian Navy on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, under the guidance of the Ministry of External Affairs and duly supported by the Department of Fisheries, functioning under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and other agencies of the Govt of India.
Representatives from 14 out of 23 IORA Member States  attended the Seminar.
During the Seminar, the attendees reviewed the scale of IUU fishing activities in the IOR, discussed the adverse effects of such developments on marine ecosystem, the legal voids in tackling these activities and deliberated upon collaborative strategies and capacity building measures that could be pursued by the IORA Member States towards mitigating the menace of IUU Fishing in IOR.
Established in 1997, this year marks the 25th Anniversary of IORA. India, as a founding member of IORA, remains committed to IORA’s agenda of promoting cooperation in the region to ensure a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indian Ocean Region.
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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Employment in Government and Public Sector
As per the information available with Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, the estimated number of Central Government Civilian regular employees available as on 01.03.2018, 01.03.2019 and 01.03.2020 is as given below:
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Years
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Total Number of employees in position 
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2017-18
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31.19
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2018-19
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30.89
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2019-20
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31.33
Source: DoPT
As per the information available with Department of Public Enterprises , Ministry of Finance, the total number of regular employees working in Central Public Sector Enterprises  is as follows:
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Year
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Total Number of Regular Employees

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2017-18
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10.87
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2018-19
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10.71
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2019-20
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9.10
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2020-21
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8.61
Source: DPE, M/o Finance
The employment in CPSEs depends upon their requirement as per their expansion/investment plan from time to time.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shri Rameswar Teli in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.